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Originally Posted by mapuc

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Patton is one of my favorite generals under WWII.

Markus

One interesting thing is that every great general makes at least one very bad error in judgment.Patton his big foul up was the attempted rescue of his son in law who was a POW in a German camp not to far behind German lines.Well the mission failed and the rescue unit was all killed or captured and son in law was not liberated until the war ended.

The thing with all of this was that it was a rash reaction on Patton's part and based on the known disposition of the enemy in that sector the Germans where very strong there.

Look at Zhukov his blunder was Operation Mars around Rzhev it failed and cost many lives but he did learn from it.

Patton made his blunder after he had already proven himself of course and his was also a much smaller unit of manpower involved.